Research Catalog

Title

• The Lord's table : the meaning of food in early Judaism and Christianity / Gillian Feeley-Harnik.

Author

Feeley-Harnik, Gillian, 1940-

Publication

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994.

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Details

Description

xviii, 184 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• 586 B.C.-600 A.D
• Food > Christianity
• Food > Judaism
• Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
• Lord's Supper > History > Early church, ca. 30-600

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, with a new preface and updated bibliography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-178) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Anthropology and the Bible -- Anthropology and biblical scholarship -- The anthropology of food -- Argument and methods -- Jewish sectarianism in the Greco-Roman period -- History after the Babylonian Exile -- Who is the true Israelite? -- Jerusalem at the time of Jesus -- And who is my neighbor? -- The interpretation of scripture -- Water and wine -- Gluttony -- Food symbolism in the Judaic tradition -- Blessing -- Judgment -- Acceptance and rejection -- Doubt -- God's food is his word -- Commensalism and covenant -- Commensalism and sectarianism -- Commensalism and apostasy -- The last supper -- The heavenly wedding banquet -- The last supper -- Last supper and passover -- The passover Seder -- Style in Midrash -- Time -- Place -- The community -- The sacrifice -- The death of Isaac and the destruction of kinship -- Jesus' passover -- The folly of the Gospel -- The legitimacy of Jesus -- Wine into water -- Peter's vision -- From Caesarea to Antioch.

ISBN

1560983388 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93041414^

OCLC

1243755948

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library